Covering up the facial tissues with a nice cover is a great way to ensure that the advertising isn't infiltrating your home and that the tissues fit into your décor. This lovely tissue box cover is designed to look like a cozy little cabin for your tissues. You can add decorations during the year to coincide with celebrations and holidays, including birthdays, sports grand finals, Halloween, Christmas, and so forth. A facial tissue box can easily be placed in the house because the base of the box (namely, the bottom of the house) is left open for ease of use.

Steps

Part 1

Preparing the plywood

1

Use the pencil to trace the perimeter of all four sides of the box of tissues onto the plywood.

2

Use the ruler to measure and mark a slightly larger rectangle (about an extra centimetre) around the four traced sides of the facial tissue box. This is so that the cabin will easily fit over your box of tissues.

3

Draw a right angled triangle onto the plywood. This will be connected to the top of the sides of the cabin, to support the roof panels.

The long edge of the triangle should be the same length as the top of the side wall of the cabin.

The right angle should be opposite this edge, this will be at the top of the roof.

4

Draw the roof panels onto the plywood. The panels will meet at the peak of the roof.

The length should match the longest edge of the walls.

The width should be the length of the right angle triangle plus a small overhang.

Include a slit on one of the roof panels for the tissues to come out.

5

Cut all of the shapes out of the plywood.

Part 2

Assembling the cabin

1

Glue the triangles to the top of the side walls (right angle to the top). Reinforce by gluing the cardboard.

2

Glue the walls together. Reinforce with cardboard.

3

Glue the roof panels onto the walls. Reinforce the inside of roof panels with cardboard, ensuring that you cut out the slit for the tissue box.

4

Check that the walls align and that the roof is accurate. Most importantly, check that it will fit over a standard tissue box.

Part 3

Decorating the cabin

1

Decorate your cozy cabin tissue box cover. Paint the whole cabin black. Don't worry if you don't want the cabin to be black, because you'll be sticking items all over it, then you can paint it your desired colour later. Wait for the paint to dry before you start gluing the other items onto it.

2

Make the shingles for the roof. Using a metal ruler and a utility knife, cut long one centimetre wide strips out of a shingle. Then divide the strips into small 1 centimeter (0.4 in) x 2.5 centimeter (1.0 in) rectangles.

3

Glue the mini shingles onto the roof.

4

Decide the location and size of the cabin's windows and doors. Pencil them onto the cabin.

For the window, cut the aluminium foil to size just inside of your pencil lines on the cabin (these will be the window panes). Cut the white tape into thin strips and add them to the window panes in a grid shape––these are for making fancy windows.

8

When dry, glue the frames onto the cabin in the desired locations. Cover up the edges of the painted door and the window panes to make it as neat as possible.

9

Paint the mini wood planks your desired colour. Cut them to size and glue them on vertically or horizontally, whichever you prefer.